today we have an operation where we are targeting what we call a clandestine garage uh which is In N is called God's Hospital intelligence suggest there may be fuel canisters concealed that location the fuel has been used for no purpose other than to refuel drugs trafficking vessels out at Sea they can remain at Sea sometimes after 2 weeks they need to change crew they need to feed those Crews they need to refuel the vessel so by removing the fuel we're putting uh serious dents in their ability to operate the complex is vast okay it's a big tunnel Network furthermore the fuel is alleged to belong to a known protagonist in The logistical support of organized crime groups working with drugs trafficing it is unknown whether a person or persons will be at location in view of this all officers will be wearing personal protective equipment and will carry a batons and Captain capacitor spray let's go jabala one of Britain's last overseas territories over 30,000 people call it home but Millions more visit every year enjoying a little bit of Britain under the Mediterranean Sun lying at the very tip of Mainland Europe with a border to Spain in the north and Morocco just 9 Mi South across the water [Music] jip's 430 customs and police officers a task with protecting this critical Gateway between Africa and Europe tackling everything from Smugglers to tourists in trouble saving lives enforcing the law and clamping down on crime they are the cop on the Rock we're going into a tunnel a very big very long [Music] tunnel just go The Drug Squad are on an operation got a good feeling got a good feeling about this one today detective Sergeant Jerry Martinez and his team are carrying out a plan to disrupt an organized crime gang suspected of supplying boat fuel to drug smugglers we got an officer already who's at location is one of our cover colleagues was up there watching the entrance to the tunnel making sure there's nobody going in and out and if there is he's going to report back to us the gang I believe to be stashing the fuel deep in a network of tunnels within the rock of Jaa we have an extensive history going back to the taking of the Rock in 1704 all the way up to World War I where the tunnels were extended um so you know the the networks are extensive and um if you don't know where you're going it's very easy to get lost down there so um this particular tunnel is also quite a large complex it goes quite deep into the Rock um so we're going to have to make sure that uh nobody's getting lost we stick together the rabbit waren of tunnels inside the rock could give the criminal the upper hand with hiding places and plenty of Escape Routes uh yeah just for information we're going to be commencing Drug Squad operation in uh God's Hospital opposite ocean views we're going to be off the air for some time we'll be in a tunnel over yeah good luck thank you the team don't know what or who to expect behind the vehicles blocking the entrance Byron L know if they can move these two just we can get a vehicle in if needs B nice and slow okay Lads the intelligence is there's at least one vehicle alongside an amount of fuel marine fuel oh it's a bit chilly down here boys be careful I can get a bit slippery under the foot here okay who's got the the good touch here I can can smell fuel yeah I can smell fuel here we go yeah Vance can smell it there go there we go I want to check the vs check the yeah let's clear those Vehicles let's clear the vehicles [Music] boys okay building's [Music] clear white Van's full this F is a key link to the international drug trade in this region the white one is fuel fuel how many are we talking about about 20 in here Jerry 20 let's have a look these are all full oh this is fuel the police suspect these containers are taken out to sea on small boats operating from jalter's beaches for the purpose of refueling larger speed boats used by drug traffickers so we got 25 26 27 28 in this vehicle nice 28 in here and there's a shitload more in there just got all these empty Jerry cans here which obviously been used at some point the team may have successfully foiled this underground operation 45 containers but they now face the challenging task of safely removing hundreds of liters of fuel from the depths of jalter's tunnels okay let's do something who's feeling fit and healthy [Laughter] nobody let's get two vehicles down here let's stop unloading the fuel let's get on the comms let's call Traffic let's get a tow truck down here the tow truck will fit okay so we'll get it down here and we'll take these vehicles as well as the fuel it appears the tunnels are also being used to hide vehicles that could be involved in the refueling operation so these vehicles obviously are ones going to be used to transport the fuel down to the vessel that's going to take it out to see Jerry's Keen to take a look inside the van but with no key we have a much quicker way of doing this the team take a less technical approach go on my boy go on oh the food's gone bad AR it there's a couple of shopping bags uh full of food and Supply we've got tin food water milk bread um and that was due to go out to feed the crws on the big ribs so they feed the people and they feed the boat um somewhere out there there's a crew that's gone hungry now but uh that's what that food is for over there couple of pot noodles everybody loves a good pot noodle don't they having successfully disrupted this operation the team are left wondering what else could be lurking in the gloomy interior of these tunnels you think about it's a really good hiding place if you were going to hide something you'd hide in one of those tunnels would you but searching deep in the rock of jotar is a hazardous business that shouldn't be like that that's dangerous as don't want to fall down there oh hello I recognized that blue one this one here around the corner Byron's made another Discovery these sort of vehicles are used in the illicit activity so like the tobacco or ref the fueling they deliver it so they come down here grab a car and then start delivering what they need to deliver but I could be wrong these could just be vehicles that are here but they they all look very familiar all of them so this could be quite a good find but in the dark not everything is as it seems pum Customs ah yeah that makes sense it's Customs that thing should be up there it's Customs vault is a seized vehicle sadly it wasn't quite the Aladdin's cave Byron was hoping for what you think that used to say I see the G and the p and pigs it's definitely rgp pigs in it definitely if you want take that one first the Suzuki we'll unload the fuel into our vehicles so when you tow this one is empty cuz the back doors don't close with Smugglers Vehicles plus the fuel now in the hands of the police today's trip down the tunnels has been a resounding success these are vehicles that are going to belong to us from now on so I'm happy with taking them off the streets I'm very happy with the result tonight as well uh we've got a substantial amount of fuel a substantial amount of Jerry cans um it's going to cost them a lot of time and more importantly a lot of money as well so I'm happy we've disrupted them uh the best possible way today back at the compound Jerry tots up today's Hol about £ 2,000 worth of marine fuel not bad my quick maths it is organized crime it is drug trafficking and we're not going to rest until this sort of stuff stops at the end of the day I wouldn't be comfortable knowing this is behind somebody's house on a family member's house in a car in a garage somewhere it's dangerous stuff so um not only are we t is in organized crime here and the drugs trafficking but we're also um dealing with public safety issues you know this could go bang at any time and when it goes bang it's going to go bang pretty big so police and Customs teams will now be on the lookout for the gang who has been trying to deliver this fuel to drug dealers out at Sea there's absolutely a vessel out there now probably more than one who's uh going without Fuel and going without food for the crew so and I will sleep better tonight for it at Police Headquarters footage of a car theft from the police compound is being examined by PC Simon Todd it could be another Link in the fuel transportation chain the CCTV that we're view in at the moment is actually from the police compound and what we have here is two suspects pretty well covered up they're both wearing hoodies Bal clavas you can see one under the Bonnet now at the moment tampering with the car and basically what he's trying to do is get the car up and running to obviously get the vehicle out the fence that um surrounds the the compound was actually ripped apart amazingly thieves have successfully stolen a gray Kia hatchback car from inside a police facility they do cause damage to some of the vehicles that are impounded he's actually pushing the vehicle out the way so the vehicle that was situated here he's now got in the car has started they used the car as a ram pushing that vehicle because they weren't able to access it to take the break off we don't know what their intentions are why they've gone for this car but we're hoping obviously if we can pick the two suspects up they' be able to give us a clearer indication as to why the why the car was taken police have a suspect in mind and Simon's joined by colleagues PC Nick Ma and Tanya ready closely followed by a PC Julian Cruz in a separate car he's well known to us um he's well known for being involved in the movement of fuel which seems to have sort of popped up recently as being quite a big thing here in jalta and it's understood that the vehicle in question was one of his which was used for the transportation of fuel believe their suspect has taken the Kia hatchback to either discard evidence or use the vehicle for further crimes so at the moment we're just looking for him as he's been identified any clothing that he was wearing at the time and just basically see if there's anything else within the property which might further incriminate some of the offense officers from the Royal jroa police are hunting a car thief the suspected Thief is believed to live with his parents PC Julian holds fire outside in case the wanted man makes a dash for it I think right now what I'm feeling is the Calm before the storm just sit down try not to get too excited kick in cuz you don't don't know how these things can go hopefully won't have to run after anyone but if I have to that will be my excitement for the day nobody is answering the door Simon and his team decide to hold out here comes the father [Music] search War search premises hi madam the cops Intel is spot on the suspect is at home in time you're under arrest all right bur all right everything simple quick and easy right for the house so I'm going to caution you not to say anything else unless you used to do so would say maybe put right G an Evidence you understand that yeah I'm going to ask you before we do any search is there anything in the house that's going to appertain to this Kia no do you know anything about it the search warrant has taken place and the person that we were looking for is within the residence just waiting for a further update to see what's been found if anything has been found doesn't necessarily mean I have to put my Randy shoes away cuz it could be that the minute he's sced down the road he might decide to run depending on what the situation he's found himself his like I don't want the opportunity for them to throw something from the window and uh as not to have continuity of evidence I'm just making sure nothing comes out until he is detained after a thorough search of the flat the officers have discovered a banner clava and mobile phone both could be potential evidence however there's no sign of any keys or documents linked to the stolen car okay I got cheers bye but the police have found keys to another vehicle that's parked outside which they hope might offer some Clues is there in the car where you shouldn't find sure Simon has found a toolkit in the suspect's car going to see is this all right it's temporarily it's expensive I want it back I know and I'll explain to you why when we're in in all right yeah officers suspect the toolkit may have been used in the theft of Motor Vehicles you got anything on you shouldn't have yeah it will be sent to police HQ along with the suspected car thief the missing piece of the jigsaw is the stolen car Simon starts the search it's on a d plate so we're looking around about 2014 2015 model which if you know your cars it's like a a bubble shape um it's going to be a like a a dark gray in color so that's the type of car that we're we're going to be looking for here at the moment but with no obvious sign of the vehicle the search already feels like looking for a needle in a hay stack these guys know a lot of people who have keys who have lockups who have you know assets and because they're all very well connected it's um it's very easy for them to play hide and seek nothing n what a p now all the teams deploy to find the vital piece of missing evidence the stolen car [Music] remarkable when you consider how small jalter is just how many places there are to hide something essentially we've got one person arrested for the crime we've got positive leads on who the second person is there's every possibility that we can you know move on the second person with no sign of the car nearby the call goes out to all the peninsula's officers to hunt for the stolen vehicle so there's more of the puzzle yet to be discovered [Music] it's early evening and jta's bars and clubs are gearing up for another busy night okay you're all hear in a party or something PC's keano Costa and Caroline Goff are on patrol in the Town Center to interrupt anything from under ra drinking you're 18 as well no sure to more serious criminal act AC ity and they've spotted something what's going on have you just been involved in something no the party okay Kiana's just stopped two youths who appear to be a touch worse for wear and one of them is well known to the police you got anything you shouldn't have on top you sure we get called to all sorts of jobs and obviously if you do tend to know people I mean it can work in your favor and sometimes it can work against you unfortunately if people decide to put themselves in in those kind of situations well then they need to be police none of you have anything on you know they may claim to be law abiding but their demeanor has aroused Kiana's suspicions so right just sech your pouches yeah what have you thrown over there let me see what have you just thr H I've just asked you have you had anything on top I haven't I just m that one no you haven't yes so she thinks one of them has thrown a cigarette pack into a hedge I've seen you I've seen you throw it containing What appears to be a cannabis joint listen you're being detained for the purpose of the search but he's got other ideas stop right there [Music] stop run away from me get up get upou get up the young lad's Sprint was no match for Kanas and two plain clo officers nearby now he's being arrested for possession of cannabis and it's earned him a night in the cells [Music] right you're under arrest okay say to do say I'm sorry but for Caroline and Kiana the night is still young they've been sent to investigate another group of illegal fuel Transporters yes so we've basically just received a report that there's people here uh cars and they've got quite a few fuel canisters so we're going to try and stop them in the ACT if they've not just left [Music] already to help stop smuggling there's a legal limit on the amount of petrol you can transport in jalar it's 20 L this is the suspect car they're not here control from p8 they not here the vehic is empty but Kiana's convinced the suspects can't be far away let's have a look there they are who stop stop come here come here stop you stop there stop Jala cop Kiana has approached 2 men suspected of running fuel to drug boats stop stop come here stop but one of them has done a runner Extreme Caution be very careful he becomes violent over she's now searching for the fleeing man he's fled the scene we've caught them with fuel canisters and he's run away we've got another one I'm trying to see if I can get hold but he's got gone meanwhile PC Caroline Goff sits tight with the second suspect and the Jerry cans yeah Caroline you're all right over there let me know if you need any help I'm just trying to get sight on get under the cover of Darkness Kiana has her work cut out there many blocks in the state he could be hiding anywhere but Kiana did get a good look at his face so all is not lost he's known to us um obviously you've seen the reaction he's seen us and he's just read the scene maybe the other man at the car will talk have you searched him not yet I'm waiting for to come wait for a mail to come cuz they can search him properly yeah but get that off him when him holding it police have caught this man in possession of Jerry cans before so these we I just realized these are empty but he might have some more in the boot so if we just want to open the I'm going to search the vehicle or it smells of Petrol in here do you have anything in the vehicle that you shouldn't not going to find anything then who was driving the vehicle if it wasn't you you don't know whose vehicle it is but you're you're in it he's saying nothing but police believe he's part of the operation to take fuel from places like the store they found in the rock out to Smuggler boats at Sea you have an estimate on the amount of Jerry yeah there's free but unfortunately they MC it's a partial success for the cops we've caught them red-handed I've searched a vehicle just to make sure that there's nothing that they shouldn't have inside we've just come across the lids for the canisters unfortunately one did get away um nothing we can do about that just keep our eyes out and just continue searching the area constantly we know there's activity going on tonight clear um I mean it's a good thing at least we've been able to to stop one of the runs it's just gone 3:00 a.m. much of jota's nighttime policing revolves around alcohol rated incidents and sometimes the cops require a cool head and a thick skin peace see casy as a party Francis and his colleagues are responding to a report of a man passed out at a bus stop yeah this is yours and he isn't hard to spot wakey wakey sunshine I lost my bike my bag I can't get back to fuing my T in so I'm sleeping here tonight unless you guys on my bed can't can't have you sleeping near me oh you got a hotel for me no no where you staying where's your passport uh yeah you can have my passport if you like yeah perfect I live in AO I travel around Europe on a bicc and I've just lost my bike and my my bag know see your passport the man's heavily intoxicated and claiming he's been robbed while sleeping you're going to have to wake up all right and get yourself to the frontier all right we can't have you sleeping on a bench and a bus stop what I was going to do now head off to the tent you can't have you can't have you sleep bik I live 10 miles away from here bro when I get into my bike's been LED from here bro got my passort on my phone that's it bro you want to help me you want to help me i' missing my hat and everything bro sleeping rough on Crown Land in jalta is forbidden Casey and Angelo want to take him to the border so he can cross back into Spain where he says he's been camping we're going to have to get you to the frontier right can't have you sleeping on a bench F than the frontier then get his passport W in the details down you're going to the frontier yes and I'm not going to have you out here drunk it's either you go that way or we arrest you for being intoxicated in the public place arrest me I'll go to to police station and I can get an English solicitor now in Spain what do I get nothing so arrest me here sit down come take a seat no cough me cough me take a seat cough me take a seat cough me take a seat cough me take a seat cough me take a seat I take take a seat me cough me I'd rather be arrested in gy than in Spain no yeah go on I'm English is it I'm English yeah have my wrist bro don't do I got broken [Music] wrist with the man refusing to cooperate Casey and Angelo decide to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly watch your tone with me I've told you once already in England mate watch that please watch that R please youve just arrested me for nothing for nothing you're intoxicated in the public place I've given you ample chance to go back to Spain I'm giving you ample chance to go back to Spain and you haven't listened so you've been arrested by my colleague that's how H you got bullied at school but as they wait for the van it's an opportunity for the man to show his expertise of gibraltarian law well you got no curfew here now yeah but you can't his curfew you can't camp on Crown Land you can't camp on Crown Land English bro an English passport bro it doesn't give you any more right than anyone else does up your rights then brother look your rights up your police officers you dumb pick I'm you're a police officers you got van everything bab it's not long before the man's transport arrives I drunk a r and I passed out you know all right is there anything you want to know about I don't know maybe your mom's number but I don't know just search him SE I ain't done nothing wrong either I just went to sleep here what's the crime in that now a drunk English man being searched in jib I can sitting there myself bro you don't need to push my head for this man A Night in the bus shelter has now become a night in the cells tried to give him ample opportunity to get up and go home he refused on multiple occasions uh he was going to stay up in the station for the night sober up and then we'll uh deal with him [Music] later it's been days since a seiz vehicle was stolen from under the cops noses at their compound they're Keen to find the culprits what we have here is two suspects wearing B clavas you can see one under the Bonnet now what he's trying to do is get the car up and running to obviously get the vehicle out police have arrested one of the suspects for def this moment in time you're under arrest susp Burg but the other man in the CCTV is yet to be found but Nick rage has just had an update in the early hours of the morning traffic officers managed to locate the the vehicle that we were searching for for the last couple of days it had been secreted in some bushes just off one of our main roads out of sight so we' probably driven past it 10 times in the last 48 hours and not noticed it so they did a good job but uh fortunately one of the traffic officers spotted it this morning with fresh information found in the car officers think they've identified the second man in the CCTV time to move I haven't seen him honestly since yesterday before I went to work the suspect isn't there but a potentially crucial bit of evidence is we've got a key for a Kia but I don't know if it's going to be the right one okay cheers we've got a key to a Kia car but there's no guarantee it's the same car so we'll just have to check the key and see if it fits if the key fits um it gives a definitive link between him and the vehicle so at the very least it will tie him to the vehicle they will keep looking for the second suspect but he won't be driving the Kia we've now now got the vehicle back in our possession and we're now rounding up the suspect so yeah it's all coming together every day around 15,000 people cross the land border into jalta from Spain it's the job of the police and Customs officers to ensure they aren't carrying illegal [Music] drugs DC Colin Testa from The Drug Squad is watching The Border today we're just keeping an eye out uh for people coming in from the frontier it's obviously a known location where drug supplies do take place just keep a look for any suspicious activity this afternoon so hopefully we we'll be lucky other plane closed officers are positioned around the bus stop opposite a known spot where drug packages carried over from Spain are exchanged the bus stop is very well hidden uh for various reasons a lot of traffic the buses stopped so obviously a transfer can be made um very quickly in a matter of seconds and no one can keep eyes from a distance so he's inside hoping to catch one of these transfers take place but with so many people around everyone is a suspect several hours pass and the team is still watching and waiting until that's one me wait wait wait wait one of the covert cops on the street thinks a drug deal is going down let's [Music] go drug officers are watching a known drug Dealers Exchange point and they think they've just seen a [Music] deal wait wait wait wait these two women are suspects so is this guy in the blue t-shirt the two women are also claiming they don't know the man with no signs of any illegal substances in their handbags they'll now be subject to a full body [Music] search so we've basically been able to detain two females um the officers which were in the bus stop saw a transaction taking place uh at the the moment we're just uh having them searched by female Customs officers and they'll get back get back to us with uh what the result is whether it was drugs or or anything else but it seems their suspicions were spot on as one of the women was concealing a package so this looks like a a lot of basically Class C uh tablets we need to find out what's tablets they are should probably be arrested for possession and intend to supply there are some classy drugs that you can legally carry in Jala providing you have a prescription these range from sleeping tablets to steroids the woman admits the drugs are diazapam used to treat anxiety she says she brought them over the border from Spain but claims they are prescribed by her doctor [Music] but with no prescription to back up her story the cops aren't convinced she's basically claiming that the these are prescribed to her in Spain but obviously um she's it's an offense to import them over the land Frontier and uh Supply them to another so she's been nied the woman is arrested on suspicion of possession with intent to supply a classy drug and the hall is reported to senior officer detective sergeant Jerry Martinez I have to use my fingers and toes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 104 no it's good it's enough it's enough I highly suspect given the way they've been packaged in a clear plastic wrapping uh that they are not prescribed I don't know a pharmacist worth their weight that would prescribe control drugs in a clear plastic rapper with no markings and no names or anything on those lines so um yeah I'm going to take a bet and say that it's uh these are street drugs and not farma what we're going to do now we're going to interview her because she's not local she has no local ties uh we're going to take a you probably to charge her over night and we'll convey her to court in the morning um and we'll see how she please in that regard Customs Marine officers uro asz and John cartri are Midway through a night shift they intercept the speed boats that the petrol Runners are constantly refueling they reckon there's a lot more criminal activity on the full moon patrolling the sea at night isn't easy with tricky Tides swirling currents and hidden rocks the team have to use all their expertise and it isn't long before our Touro spots The suspect's Vessel up ahead we just found the r The Rock but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere it's been abandoned here vessels like this are used by Smugglers bringing cannabis from Morocco to Spain and it's an indication of the big money involved that this boat was worth tens of thousands of pounds can just be abandoned what they've probably done is come in escaping from someone rammed it on the rocks and done a runner on land so what we've done is we've informed our land CR so they can sweep the area just in case uh the people or the crew still in the area in the meantime uro and John need to figure out how to transport the suspected drug boat back to dry land the engines have all died now they will have to tow the boat but working so close to the Rocks Under Darkness with strong currents and a changing tide is fruit with danger see if we I I with the Rope attached uro now faces a huge challenge to prize the boat from the Rocks the seabed there is really Rocky so you've got rocks jutting out from land quite uh dramatically and uh if it hit one of our engines or we hit one of the Rocks should we say uh we could have ended up beside the vessel we now have detained so but it's all well and good now as the sun rises they head [Music] home back at base is it's time to inspect the abandoned boat for Clues they seem to have a punch on the back I don't know if they've been rounded by Spanish authorities or they've just caught a puncher when they've gone to land somewhere this uh is obviously a large scale operation we're talking about smuggling cannabis and it's at least a couple of tons of time on a vessel that size Fel guzzling drug boats like this one need resupplying out at Sea by local gangs to keep operating uro and the team realized this is a major find the Smugglers have left behind everything Customs officers would want to know about their criminal operation they've left the phone on board which we'll try and open and uh see if we can get any information from that uh they've got a couple of uh GPS and the one on board the chart plotter on board hopefully we we'll be able to to get into that and see what routes they've taken where they've landed in Morocco if they've landed in Spain the SE electronic devices will reveal secret details about how the gang actually works so still got a little bit of investigating to do uh before this is set to sleep and just to cap it off Customs are seizing The Smuggler's boat as well [Music] [Music]